Portable roof for hay or straw stacks



(No Model.) I

J. H. BEAN. I

PORTABLE ROOF FUR HAY OR STRAW STAUKS.

' No. 2 5,003. Patnted se u''fisisz,

ATTORNEYS. I

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UNITED STATES PATENT: OFFICE.

JACOB H,BEAN, OF MACON, ILLINOIS.

PORTABLEROOF FORHAY OR STRAW STACKS.

SPECIFIGATION'forming part of Letters Patent No. 265,093, dated September 26, 1882, V Application filed July 13, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known-thatI, JACOB H. BEAN, a citi zen of the United States of America, residing at Macon, in thecounty of Macon and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Portable Roofs, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein tothe accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to a certain improvement in roofs for hay or straw stacks, having for its objects to readily secure its parts detachably together, while itis capable of easy construction and adjustment upon the stack and portable for shipment, and to render it convenient for transportation from place to place about the field as it may be needed.

To these ends my invention consists in the employment of ridge-boards anchored in position upon the upper ends of the roof-boards, the latter having cleats, the lower ones with tongues and cave-pieces strapped to side boards, in connection with central connectedtogether transverse ridge-beams, to which rafters are detachably secured and anchored in position, and upon which the cave-boards are also removably secured, substantially as here inafter more fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l-is a perspective view of my improved hay or straw stack roof as applied for use upon such.

stack. Fig. 2 is a partly broken away transverse section thereof, and Figs. 3 and 4. are detailed similarly broken away'perspective views of the same.

In carrying out'my invention I employ rafters A, whose upper ends are provided with apertured projecting'plates or tongues a, and

detachably connected to transverseparallel ridge-pieces B by means of the said tongues, the latter being arranged to occupya relatively horizontal position and passed into substantially horizontal mortises in the ridgepieces, as seen in Fig. 2. Vertical pins 1), passed through similar apertures in the ridgepieces B and through the apertures of the tongues a of the rafters A, secure these parts together. The rafters are anchored upon thestack at their lower ends by means of cords or wires 0, having attached thereto weights 0.

I These ends of the rafters passthrough suitably apertured or mortised side boards, (3, affixed upon the rafters. D D are the roof or top boards, having affixed to their under side cleats dd, the upper ones simply restingon the same ends of the rafters, permitting the upperends of the boards to rest upon the outer edges of the pieces B, while the lower ones, (1, are provided on their lower sides with tongues (1 slightly bentdownward at their lower ends to enable them to enter notches or mortises in the rafters.

E E are the ridge-boards, connected together at the apex formed by their union, and resting at their lower ends on and overlapping the upper ends of the roof-boards D, said ridgeboards being anchored in position'thereon by means of the wires or cords 6, having secured to their lower ends weights e, both which and the weights 0 of the cords or wires 0 of the eave-boardsare held in a suspended position.

From the foregoing it will be seen that a roof is furnished whichis capable of being readily and easily put up and taken apart, and is portable for shipment, and to permit it to be conveniently transported from place to place about the field wherever a hay or straw stack is to be roofed.

If desired, a ridge-pole supported by suitable uprights canbe passed under the apex of the roof and hold it in an elevated position over the hay, 8130.

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1. In a roof of the aforesaid class, the combination, with the anchored rafters A, having notches or inortises in their upper surfaces, of the roof-boards D, having their lower cleats, d, provided with the downwardly-bent tongues d substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a roof of the aforesaid class, the combination, with the parallel ridge-beams B, having the vertical apertures provided with pins b, of the rafters A, having'the relatively horizontal apertured tongues a, substantially as and for the purpose setforth.

3. In a roof of the aforesaid class, the com-- to cave-boards O, nailed or otherwise fastened I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patbination, with the anchored mortisecl side In testimony whereofI affix' my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JACOB H. BEAN.

Witnesses:

WM. H. BEAN, RoBT. H. WooDoooK. 

